Ontology based Semantic Search Engine
(2012)

We live in a connected age when every entity is linked to each other through numerous relationships thus forming complex networks, information networks etc., In this meshy scenario, storing analyzing, managing extracting information is going to be highly challenging task. Information retrieval happened to be an activity that only a few people engaged in. due to the advent of search engines and communication facilities, millions of people are engaged in information retrieval and extraction process. The information retrieval deals with finding a set of documents relevant to the user query. Commercial search engines like Google deals with key word search which is based on Boolean logical queries. The major disadvantage of this kind of keyword search is that it returns a lot of irrelevant information to the users which results in low precision. Nowadays the field of information retrieval is moving towards semantic level from syntactic level. These semantic search engines are based on the concept of ontology which gives a Meta data representation of concepts. In this paper we focus on the retrieval mechanisms related to it. This includes various phases in which the ontology is designed first and then the indexing and retrieval phases work. Key wordsOntology, semantic web, Information retrieval, Query builder I.INTRODUCTION In this digital age each and every concept is linked to each other through various relationships forming the complex information web. By passing through the web we face some sort of challenges in storing and extracting the information from them. We therefore rely on search engines to overcome those difficulties. Any way these search engines facilitate only keyword search which does not returns accurate results to the external user. Aiming to solve the limitations of keyword based models, the idea of semantic search, understood as searching by meanings rather than by literals has been the focus of a wide body of research in the information retrieval and the semantic web communities Semantic search has been present in the information retrieval since the early eighties. Some of these approaches are based on the statistical methods that study the co-occurrence of terms that capture and exploit tough and fuzzy conceptualizations. Other Information retrieval approaches apply linguistic algorithms modeled on human language processing structures and taxonomies, where the level of conceptualization is often shallow and sparse, especially the level of relations, which are commonly at the core of expressing user needs and finding the answers. Ontologies are used to represent knowledge in a conceptual manner that can be distributed among various applications. The ontology has its application in information retrieval where it exploits the knowledge bases enhancing the semantic search, steering in one hand the use of fully fledged ontologies in the semantic based perspective, and on the other the consideration of unstructured content as target search space. In other words, this work explores the use of semantic information to support more expensive queries and more accurate results, while the retrieval problem is formulated in a way that is consistent with the Information retrieval field, thus drawing benefit from the state of art in this area and enabling more realistic and applicable approaches. II. RELEATED WORK A. Semantic web Current World Wide Web (WWW) is a huge library of interlinked documents that are transferred by computers and presented to people. It has grown from hypertext systems, but the difference is that anyone can contribute to it. This also means that the quality of information or even the persistence of documents cannot be generally guaranteed. Current WWW contains a lot of information and knowledge, but machines usually serve only to deliver and present the content of documents describing the knowledge. People have to connect all the sources of relevant information and interpret them themselves Semantic web is an effort to enhance current web so that computers can process the information presented on WWW, interpret and connect it, to help humans to find required knowledge. In the same way as WWW is a huge distributed hypertext system, semantic web is intended to form a huge distributed knowledge based system. The focus of semantic web is to share data instead of documents. In other words, it is a project that should provide a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The semantic web has got its peak in recent years by the use of explicit metadata representation of information in the web. The metadata representation is embedded in web page using RDF to enhance the visualization of results. Semantic Web can be seen as a huge engineering solution... but it is more than that. We will find that as it becomes easier to publish data in a repurposable form, so more people will want to publish data, and there will be a knock-on or domino effect. N.Vanjulavalli et al IJCSET |August 2012 | Vol 2, Issue 8, 1349-1353 ISSN:2231-0711 Available online at www.ijcset.net 1349 We may find that a large number of Semantic Web applications can be used for a variety of different tasks, increasing the modularity of applications on the Web. But enough subjective reasoning. onto how this will be accomplished. The Semantic Web is generally built on syntaxes which use URIs to represent data, usually in triples based structures: i.e. many triples of URI data that can be held in databases, or interchanged on the world Wide Web using a set of particular syntaxes developed especially for the task. These syntaxes are called "Resource Description Framework" syntaxes. Once information is in RDF form, it becomes easy to process it, since RDF is a generic format, which already has many parsers. XML RDF is quite a verbose specification, and it can take some getting used to (for example, to learn XML RDF properly, you need to understand a little about XML and namespaces beforehand...), but let's take a quick look at an example of XML RDF right now:<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdfsyntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/0.1/foaf/" > <rdf:Description rdf:about=""> <dc:creator rdf:parseType="Resource"> <foaf:name>Sean B. Palmer</foaf:name> </dc:creator> <dc:title>The Semantic Web: An Introduction</dc:title>